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rican Studies and Rural Development Shinichi TUCHI (Institute of Developing Economies) This paper, an introduction to the Workshop entitled "African Rural Development Reconsidere" has two main Objectives: one is to clarify the concept of rural development; the other is to examine the relationship between African studies and the rural development. "Rural development" not a sufficiently discussed topic in African studies. 1 Although there are a lot of Africanists studying aiculture and rural problems, only a few of them consider that the specialty is the problem of rural development. W hy have Africanists taken this rather passive attitude to the problem? One of the reasons seems to be a specific characteristic of the topic. In many cases, the problem of rural development used to be argued from a normative or technical perspective. In this context, the main concerns are how to intervene in rural society, or how to manage rural development projects. It is difficult to link these practical concerns dectly with results of Aican studies: as their main objective is to understand African society, a more realistic approach is generally preferred. The second reason may be found in the fact that development strategies after the 1980s have generally been indifferent to this issue. In the 1970s, the issue of rural development was situated at the center of development strategy, thus vitalizing arguments on it. After the 1980s, however, the interest in this topic has rather declined. Moreover, in the tide of economic liberalization policies imposed by the international community, Acan countries, wkened by lingering crises, lost their economic capability to implement rural development projecʦ. Researchers thus came to talk much more about structural adjustment than rural development. Consequently, I believe that the problem of rural development should be 1 Defining African studies is a difficult task, and this is not the main purpose of this paper. Here, African studies are regarded as having almost the same meaning as area studies on Africa. My argument is based mainly on the situation of African studies in Japan. 1

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  • African Studies and Rural Development

    Shinichi TAKEUCHI

    (Institute of Developing Economies)

    This paper, an introduction to the Workshop entitled "African Rural

    Development Reconsidered," has two main Objectives: one is to clarify the concept of

    rural development; the other is to examine the relationship between African studies and

    the rural development.

    "Rural development" is not a sufficiently discussed topic in African studies.1

    Although there are a lot of Africanists studying agriculture and rural problems, only a

    few of them consider that their specialty is the problem of rural development. W hy

    have Africanists taken this rather passive attitude to the problem? One of the reasons

    seems to be a specific characteristic of the topic. In many cases, the problem of rural

    development used to be argued from a normative or technical perspective. In this

    context, the main concerns are how to intervene in rural society, or how to manage rural

    development projects. It is difficult to link these practical concerns directly with results

    of African studies: as their main objective is to understand African society, a more

    realistic approach is generally preferred.

    The second reason may be found in the fact that development strategies after

    the 1980s have generally been indifferent to this issue. In the 1970s, the issue of rural

    development was situated at the center of development strategy, thus vitalizing

    arguments on it. After the 1980s, however, the interest in this topic has rather declined.

    Moreover, in the tide of economic liberalization policies imposed by the international

    community, African countries, weakened by lingering crises, lost their economic

    capability to implement rural development projects. Researchers thus came to talk

    much more about structural adjustment than rural development.

    Consequently, I believe that the problem of rural development should be

    1 Defining African studies is a difficult task, and this is not the main purpose of this paper. Here, African studies are regarded as having almost the same meaning as area studies on Africa. My argument is based mainly on the situation of African studies in Japan.

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  • reexamined in the present context. The reason is clear. At first, the significance of rural

    development has not changed at all in Africa. As for the urbanization rate in African

    countries, ranging from 6% (Rwanda) to 83% (Djibouti), the average was 35.5% in

    1997 (IBRD [1999]): two thirds of the total population in African countries are

    inhabitants in rural areas. In addition, agriculture is the most important economic

    activity for production and employment in many African countries. Rural development

    should be enhanced in order to promote such an important agricultural sector. Moreover,

    the problem of poverty is still serious in rural Africa. The majority of African rural areas

    lack not only electricity and water, but also wells, health services and schools. In short,

    this developmental issue having long been argued has the same significance as before

    in Africa.

    This means that the development strategy implemented since the 1980s has

    not been successful to solve the above-mentioned problems. The strategy, attaching the

    main importance to macro-economic balance, could not achieve sustainable

    development or poverty alleviation in Africa. Ret1ections on the present crisis have

    brought about a revision of the development strategy. This is the second reason for

    dealing with this problem in the present context. As we will discuss later, the World

    Bank announced its intention to revitalize the activities on rural development in the

    mid-1990s. Recent arguments therefore require us to reexamine the meaning and the

    possibility of rural development in Africa.

    In this context, African studies should be linked with the practice of rural

    development. Although it might be difficult for African studies to directly address

    practical or normative problems of rural development, a series of facts about rural

    society clarified by Africanists is indispensable for the practice of rural development.

    Moreover, today's situation in rural Africa seems to demand a strong contribution of

    African studies. How can Africanists contribute to this issue? W hat would be .points to

    be· studied in the present situation of rural Africa? This paper tries to deal with such

    questions.

    For this purpose, we should clarify the notion of rural development. "Rural

    development" is rather a new concept that appeared in the 1970s. The origin and

    evolution of the concept should be clear in order to examine the relationship with

    African studies. In the following sections, therefore, we start to shed light on the

    concept of rural development, and elucidate the evolution of its implications. After that,

    the relationship between African studies and rural development in the present context

    will be examined.

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  • I. Notion of Rural Development

    We will start by dealing with "development," a term having various meanings.

    This is certainly a notion including economic growth, which can be measured

    quantitatively, for example by national income. But the meaning of "development" is

    distinct from that of "growth," because the former implies not only quantitative

    economic growth, but also qualitative changes in such aspects as organization,

    institution and culture in society.2 Moreover, this qualitative change, in this case, is

    considered as a "desirable" one. Although we cannot examine here the contents of

    "desirable" change/ the term "development" has the implication that such "desirable" change continues during a certain period.

    On the other hand, "development" also means the aggregation of intended

    actions to bring about such change. In this sense, development is a practice of setting a goal to ameliorate the life of a group and transforming the society by political

    intervention. In Japanese, the difference is clear, as it has two words to translate

    "development:" "hatten" and "kaihatsu." While the term "hatten" emphasizes the aspect of autonomous change, the term "kaihatsu" puts emphasis on the aspect of political intervention. Interestingly, in request of rural development, the term "kaihatu" is always preferred: "rural development" has been translated, almost unconsciously, as

    "nouson (rural) - kaihatsu." We can therefore consider that the notion of rural development in Japan has been linked with political intervention.4

    If we understand the term "rural development" literally, it only has a neutral meaning of "development" in a geographically specific "rural" area. In fact, this term is

    sometimes used without particular implication. Nevertheless, in the context of

    development studies, the notion of "rural development" has been linked, especially in

    the 19708, with a specific policy framework. As Harriss [1982: 15] has pointed out, the notion of rural development

    appeared in the 1970s and criticized severely the development policy so far applied in

    developing countries. The mainstream of Third World development policy in the 1960s

    attached importance mainly to economic growth through industrialization, which was

    2 For example, see Hayami [1995: 4]. 3 For a discussion about what is "desirable" change, see for example Hoggart & Buller p987] .

    This is not only in the Japanese context; rural development has been the main social policy in the latecomers' developmental process (See Suehiro [1998]).

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  • to be achieved by the initiative of government. As for policies on rural areas and

    agriculture, their main goal was the growth of agricultural productivity through

    modernization. The agricultural mechanization policy was typical in this context.

    However, being aware of the existence of the massive number of poor in developing

    countries, criticism against such exclusively growth-oriented policy has increased. This

    criticism has affected developmental thought, thus making international organizations

    such as ILO and the World Bank put more emphasis in the 1970s on such issue as poverty alleviation, correction of inequality and fair distribution of developmental

    results (Esho [1997]).

    The policy framework for "rural development" appeared with such a change

    of developmental thought.s When poverty alleviation came to be the central issue in

    development, it was natural that the rural areas, where the majority of the poor lived,

    attracted the major concern. The growth-oriented policy so far applied in developing

    countries had only limited ability to tackle the poverty problem: the trickle-down effect,

    which means that if economic growth continues, the result tricldes down to the poor.

    On the contrary, the rural development policy confronted directly the critical issue of

    poverty. "Rural" in the notion of "rural development" meant in this context a place

    where the poor live. In total, the notion of rural development has been strongly linked

    with the goal of poverty alleviation, and with the framework for development strategy

    emphasizing not only economic growth but also distribution and equality. Such an idea

    of rural development appeared and rapidly spread in the 1970s as the new approach for

    Third World development.

    11. Rural Development and the World Bank

    It was the World Bank that played the major role in spreading the notion of

    rural development in the 1970s. In this section, therefore, the World Bank experience of

    S As the reasons why the rural development policy, targeted on peasants, appeared in the 1970s, Mizuno [1999] mentions four factors. First is that, as the peasant revolution succeeded in several countries in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s, Western countries were eager to ameliorate the living standard of the peasants. Secondly, excessive urbanization has become a serious problem in many developing countries. This has lea to international concern about rural poverty as the origin of migration. Third is that technical innovation such as high-yield varieties and fertilizers, progressed rapidly, thus making agricultural investment profitable. Finally, Chinese experience of rural development was highly appreciated internationally. These factors brought international concern to the peasant problem.

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  • 6000

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    Figure 1. World Bank's Lending to the Agricultural Sector (1972-98)

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    Source: IBRD, World Bank Annual Report; [1974-1998].

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    Figure 2. Distribution of Approved Agriculture and Rural Development Projects --------

    1965 1966 1967 1968 196 9 197 0 19711972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 197 9 198 0 198119821983198419851986 Fiscal Year

    T etal Lending -+-RD Lending as Percentage ef T etal

    Source: Based on IBRD [1988b]

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  • rural development will be examined.

    The World Bank governor's epoch-making speech in September 1973

    declared the adoption of a new policy: rural development. In this "Nairobi Speech," the

    governor shed light on the significance of poverty alleviation and promised enlarged

    lending for rural development. The World Bank document in 1975 gave a short and

    clear definition of rural development.

    "Rural development is a strategy designed to improve the economic and

    social life of a specific group of people the rural poor. It involves extending the

    benefits of development to the poorest among those who seek a livelihood in the

    rural areas. The group includes small-scale farmers, tenants and the landless "

    (IBRD [1975bD.

    Rural development was in this sense understood as the most effective strategy

    for alleviating povel1y. As Figure 1 shows, the lending for rural development increased

    remarkably after the "Nairobi Speech." The World Bank defined a "rural development

    project" as a "poverty-oriented project" in which "50% or more of the direct benefits

    accrue to the rural target group" (IBRD [1988b: 4]). Figure 2 indicates that not only the

    total amount of lending for agriculture and rural development6 increased, but also that

    the ratio of lending for rural development, namely poverty-oriented projects, was

    enlarged from the end of the 1960s.

    One of the characteristics of rural development projects was "Area

    Development" approach. This is an approach to create a social and economic

    infrastructure for the rural poor by investing considerable resources in a specific area.

    The concept of this approach is similar to the "Basic Needs" approach advocated

    especially by ILO.7 "Basic Needs" approach tried to provide the poor with a set of

    minimum standards of living: consumer goods such as foodstuffs, shelter and clothes,

    basic services such as potable water, health care and education, and other basic rights

    for living such as employment and participation in the decision-making process. The

    "Area Development" approach was a strategy derived from recognition of the cause of

    poverty being so complex that wide-ranging and simultaneous countermeasures should

    be taken. This approach was adopted especially for projects in African countries

    (Mizuno [1999: 21 D.8

    6 Lending for the "agriculture and rural development" sector was thus divided into the agriculture (non-poverty-oriented) and rural development (poverty-oriented) sub-sectors. Such a distinction was abolished from the annual report of 1993. 7 The World Bank itself did not adopt the "Basic Needs" approach. 8 This approach was later criticized for several reasons. The main reasons were the low

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  • Nevertheless, the period was short when rural development was the central

    issue of development policy. The tide of developmental thought changed once again in

    the 1980s. Figure 3 shows the ratio of lending for the agricultural (including rural

    development) sector to total lending. It is clear that the ratio, once it had increased in

    the 1970s, continued to decline after the 1980s. Although the absolute amount of

    lending for the agricultural sector increased even in the 1980s, its.importance in World

    Bank activities has clearly decreased.

    This trend is related to the change of development strategy adopted by the

    World Bank. As lending for rural development remarkably increased in the 1970s, the

    lending for non-projects Qater multi-sector) was considerably enlarged in the 80s. This

    was not lending for particular projects, but was admitted under strict conditions of

    economic policy. Figure 4 indicates the evolution of lending for the agricultural sector

    and for the non-project sector. The latter, which increased rapidly in the 1980s,

    exceeded the former in the 1990s. This increase in the later, indicating the development

    of structural adjustment lending, reflects the change in the Bank's strategy for lending,

    and thus for development.

    The World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department carried out an

    assessment of its rural development programs and published the result (IBRD [1988b]).

    While the report emphasized the significance and the fruit of the rural development

    program, it allso pointed out several problems with it. Two points are especially

    important in order to understand the change in development strategy.

    The first one is the non-coherence between rural development projects and

    macro-economic policy. The report pointed out that macro-economic policy was often

    not advantageous for the agricultural or rural sector. If macro-economic policy created

    conditions that acted against the agricultural sector, it could considerably reduce the

    significance of projects. Price policy and exchange policy are especially important as

    they determine the terms of trade for farmers. As rural development is not a charity for

    the poor, but support for the development, it is natural that donors have considerable

    concern that recipient countries define appropriate economic policy for the agricultural

    sector. Such recognition led to the Bank's policy of guidance on appropriate

    macro-economic policy, namely the structural adjustment policy.

    The second point is the problem of management in rural development

    projects. The report stressed the significance of local inhabitants' participation in the

    rate of return and the possibility that a small proportion of the people could get a disproportionate share of resources (IBRD [1988b: 22-26]).

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  • 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10%

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    Figure 3. Ratio of World Bank's Lending to the Agricultural Sector

    � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Fiscal Year

    Source: lBRD, World Bank Annual Report, [1974 - 199B].

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    FigureA World Bank's Lending to the Agricultural \:)e'CLC)r and Non-Project Sector (for African Countries)

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    Source: lBRD, World Bank Annual R�port, [1974 - 1998].

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  • process of planning and managing projects. It also emphasized the necessity to establish

    a feedback system in order to resolve discovered problems in an ongoing project. This

    recognition led to the recent strategy of decentralizing the project management or

    transferring it to NGQs. On the other hand, the report pointed out that strong

    commitment from government was necessary for the success of a project. This means

    that the political leadership or the administrative capacity inevitably influenced the

    project management. This point, relating to the problem of governance or the State,

    brought into t.he argument capacity building or human development in the context of

    development strategy.

    Although the ratio of the World Bank's agricultural sector lending to total

    lending has tended to decline, this fact does not by itself mean that the Bank came to

    regard the problem of poverty as insignificant. It should be interpreted that lending for

    poverty alleviation tends to be dispersed among several sectors such as social,

    environment, or urbanization.9 In this sense, the Bank seems to have looked for a new

    strategic position on rural development. 10 Since the mid-1990s, the Bank has been

    trying to revitalize rural development. In 1996, they formulated an action plan,

    indicating its policy for agriculture, rural development and natural resource

    management. 11 Since that year, every annual report of the Bank has emphasized the

    importance of rural development. Rural development was selected in 1998 as one of six

    strategically important activities of the Bank;12 this activity is now understood not to be

    the sole method for poverty alleviation, but as an important domain to tackle many

    related problems such as food security and resource management.

    Ill. Perspectives on Rural Development in Africa

    It may still be too early to assess the new rural development strategy of the

    1990s. However, from the experience of rural development until the 1980s, we can

    imagine that there were several problems responsible for the policy change. How has

    9 For the recent perspective of the World Bank for poverty alleviation, see IBRD [1990b].

    o It was symbolic that the Bank has abolished the lending category for "rural development" in its annual report since 1993. The distinction in the agricultural sector between non-poverty-oriented and poverty-oriented (namely rural development) was criticized as meaningless in the evaluation report in 1988. 11 See IBRD [1996: 55-56]. 12 See IBRD [1998: 80].

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  • this experience of rural development in Africa been assessed or evaluated? In this

    section, we compare the assessments of African rural development projects by the

    World Bank and by Africanists. This comparison of perspectives will help to clarify the

    specificity of each approach.

    Table 1 shows the result of audited rural development projects financed by

    the World Bank between 1974 and 79 (fiscal years). This table indicates several facts

    about rural development projects in Africa (Sub-Sahara African countries are separated

    between East Afric

  • with projects in Africa. Particularly that of project planning and management was

    sometimes a serious problem. The report stated, "In too many cases, ... , especially in

    Sub-Saharan Africa, rural development lending was supply-driven by funds and project

    slots and the need to meet arbitrary target criteria, rather than demand-driven by sound

    strategies and realistic, well prepared proposals"(IBRD [1988b:xviiiD. In addition to

    the problem of economic rate of return, the Bank therefore judged that rural

    development projects in Africa also had serious problems with project management in

    general.

    How then have Africanists regarded the African experience of rural

    development? At first, let us summarize Yoshida's resCl'lrch analyzing Tanzanian rural

    development (1987; 1989). Tanzania, under the Nierere government, declared its

    socialist-oriented policy in the "Arusha Declaration" of 1967. Their "Ujamaa

    socialism" attached importance to the agricultural sector and rural area. In most parts of

    rural Tanzania, peasants used to live in scattered dwellings and they did not form

    villages. As a socialist program, the government tried to form villages in order to later

    establish village-owned communal farms. This was considered as the most effective

    way to modernize rural areas and increase agricultural production. Initially, the

    government promised to respect peasants' intentions when they promoted this

    villagization. Changing the attitude in 1973, however, the government enforced

    measures to make peasants move in order to form "Ujamaa" villages. Peasants'

    opinions were no longer respected in the operation. This policy, in addition to damage

    by drought, caused a sharp decrease in food production in 1973 and 1974. Moreover,

    export crop production such as cashewnuts continued to decline because of

    inappropriate pricing policy. The government continued to carry out the villagization

    policy despite the resistance of peasants, but they renounced the plan of common farms.

    They finally adopted a liberalistic agricultural policy in 1982, and the rural

    development policy based on "Ujamaa socialism" thus came to an end.

    This is the well-known story of Ujamaa policy, which has generally been

    assessed as a complete failure. On this point, in admitting the failure of the policy as it

    could not achieve its initial goal, Yoshida pointed out at the same time some important

    etIects brought about by Ujamaa policy. Among the socialist measures implemented in

    rural areas, while communal farm policy has totally disappeared, the villagization

    policy has borne some fruits. While it is certain that the villagization policy led to

    temporary decrease in food production, it took root in many rural Tanzania and helped

    to establish local administrative organizations. Although the environmental problem

    around villages remains to be solved, the infrastructure was generally atneliorated

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  • because the government constructed such facilities as simply-made water services,

    elementary schools, health care centers, and cereal storage. Such changes could be

    positively evaluated as they established social and economic bases for the future

    development of rural areas. He thus called attention to the fact that Ujamaa policy has

    achieved one of its purposes.

    The next example is Muroi's research on Nigeria (1987, 1989). Nigeria

    actively promoted several agricultural and rural development programs from the

    mid-1970s. Muroi analyzed two of the programs: the large-scale irrigation program

    financed mainly by the government, and "integrated rural development program"

    financed mainly by the World Bank.14 Self-sufficiency in food was the main goal of

    both of these projects. The latter program was intended especially for small-scale

    farmers, as the Bank financed it. Although abundant oil money was allocated for these

    programs, Nigerian food production did not sufficiently increase. Though some

    strategically important food crops were selected (wheat and rice in large-scale irrigation

    programs, and maize in the "integrated rural development program"), the result was not

    satisfactory in either case. Neither the production of wheat nor of rice increased. The

    production of maize augmented, but the increase was mainly due to the provision of

    very cheap fertilizer: the government expended great amount to subsidize it. Moreover,

    in the former program, many peasants were enforced to move from their homeland

    because of the construction work. In the latter case, the project caused structural

    corruption such as the illegal marketing of subsidized fertilizer.

    While pointing out such problems with the projects, Muroi posed an

    important question: how did the"

    rural development policy affect the "relations of

    production" in rural areas. Although both the two programs could not ameliorate

    Nigerian self-sufficiency in food, they did affect considerably on rural society, causing

    new situations: land appropriation, creation of opportunity for wage lab or, distribution

    of fertilizer, introduction of new varieties, etc. In other words, peasants were obliged to

    react to such new situations. MUl'oi's findings in northern Nigeria, where many

    development projects were implemented, were that commodity production developed

    rapidly, and that wage labor and commercialization of land became increasingly

    apparent. Such changes, however, did not lead directly to the polarized differentiation

    premised by classical Marxist analysis: the dichotomy between capitalists and

    agricultural·laborers. Impressive examples were that peasants started to earn money as

    wage laborers, but they always hold the usufruct of land; the land was not totally

    14 The latter project was also assessed in IBRD [1988b].

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  • commercialized, only the usufruct in the dry season was commercialized. In summary,

    they were always "imperfect" transformations from the theoretical point of view. Muroi

    maintained that capitalistic forces represented by rural development programs might

    only have "articulated" the indigenous rural society.

    Two Japanese Africanists have pointed out problems with the rural

    development program in Africa: enforcement by the government, ineffectiveness and

    corruption of the bureaucracy, inappropriate macro-economic policy, and lack of local

    participation. These points by themselves are almost the same as those claimed in the

    report by the World Bank. But two of the Africanists stressed an important point which

    was not mentioned in the Bank's evaluation report: even if political interventions in the

    name of rural development could not achieve its goal in a short period or failed by the

    judgment

  • The realistic approach of African studies can contribute to a normative approach for

    rural development, and vice versa. I will indicate lastly several important points to

    reconsider in the relationship between African studies and rural development.

    First, the autonomous development process of rural societies should be much

    more analyzed in the discussion about rural development. Studies of rural development

    are not the same as studies of "rural development projects." Various aspects of rural

    transformation, with which many Africanists have tackled, should be treated in studies

    of rural development.15 In this context, studies on the impact of rural development

    projects from the long-term perspective are very important. It is true that a cost-benefit

    analysis of a specific project has certain significance, but African studies can contribute

    much more to analyze the impact of projects on rural society or the direction of social

    changes in the long term.

    Second, understanding the "logic" of rural society is crucial not only for

    African studies, but also for the success of a rural development project. As rural

    development projects are generally managed by the donors' staff, the funding and logic

    come from the external world, so responsible of project management often alienates the

    local people. Many researchers have mentioned this point and proposed ways to solve

    problem.16 Such prescriptions as decentralization of the project, local participation and

    introduction of a sociological method for research can be interpreted as trials to tackle

    the problem. As Africanists, especially anthropologists, have actively studied the social

    structure of rural societies, their results would be useful to examine the solution to this

    problem.

    Third, as rural development projects involve the administration and are

    influenced by politics, research on them naturally relates to the problem of the African

    State and its governance. Recent African studies, especially in the field of political

    science, have produced many interesting reSults on this topic.17 Such a realistic

    approach would be useful for the practice of organizing a rural development project.

    The last point is related to the current situation in rural Africa. Following the

    recent politico-economic changes in Africa, the rural area is confronted with new and

    difficult problems. Problems of the environment and resource management, for which

    the World Bank has strengthened its effort, may be one of these issues. I want here to

    point out the significance of researches into the disastrous situation in rural areas.

    15 In this sense, Hoggart & Buller [1987] is an interesting work. Dealing with mainly developed countries, it sheds much light on the various aspects of rural development. 16 For example, see Chambers [1983]). 17 For example, See Bayart [1989], Chabal [1992] and Chabal & Daloz [1999].

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  • This is a problem recently highlighted by the outbreak of famine and,

    especially, intensified conflicts. When a famine breaks out, it is mainly the rural areas

    that are affected. Refugees and the internally displaced that are produced by conflicts

    could cause the same damage. Africa has recently seen many incidents causing serious

    damage in rural areas. If initial emergent measures are to be taken by humanitarian

    organizations such as UNHCR, it is necessary to establish a long-term development

    plan at an early stage. Considering that the disaster in rural Africa is, unfortunately, no

    longer an exception, we should discuss how to deal with such a disaster and how to

    recover the damage created in rural areas. It is therefore necessary and useful to study

    this topic of rural development by linking with the results of Afi'ican studies. Although

    research on the causes, effects and prescriptions for the disaster in rural areas are not yet

    sufficient,18 the significance and necessity of such studies should be recognized.

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